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The White Man In The Black Cat By Edgar Allan Poe

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Strong black males have put fear into the hearts of many white people even before the Civil War. Around the 1860s, white southerners were overwhelmed with the fear that one day their slaves will revolt and attack their masters. Frederick Douglass is a perfect example of a strong black male evoking fear into white people. Frederick Douglass struck fear into white people just as Pluto, from Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Black Cat,” struck fear into his owner. “The Black Cat” represents the relationship between a slave and their master. Poe makes the connection that animals and slaves basically had the same rights. In the 1800s, animals and slaves could be purchased, “sent up the river,” and even murdered with zero legal repercussions. Animals
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